Santa Clara, CA – September 20, 2007 – Milestone Internet
Marketing, Inc., (Santa Clara, CA) announced today that its Grand Velas
Resort Website (www.grandvelas.com)
won the HSMAI’s Adrian Gold Award for Search Marketing Strategy in the
“Hotel – Individual Property” category in the 51st Adrian Awards Competition.
Out of the 1,300 sites submitted for the Adrian Awards this year, www.grandvelas.com
was judged as one of the best for Web Marketing by expert hospitality,
travel, tourism, and media professionals based on the internet marketing
strategies used to promote the resort website.

Milestone used the latest internet marketing techniques including several
Web 2.0 strategies such as Online Videos, RSS feeds, Social Media optimization
to drive a phenomenal return on investment for the property. The
return on investment for the property website in its first year of being
live is close to 25X and continues to climb as several of the strategies
in Web 2.0 arena continue to play out and drive additional revenue to the
property.

Milestone developed a new website for the resort in early 2007 to reflect
the resort’s luxurious and relaxing atmosphere. The website targeted their
key market - primarily leisure vacationers, honeymooners, spa travelers,
destination wedding guests, and corporate travelers. Once Milestone
began promoting the website, visitors to the site increased 200% within
three days of launching the new website. Visitors increased another 30%
when RSS feeds and online videos for the website were launched. The website
also generated a significant amount of new phone reservation activity.
Grand Velas All Suites & Spa Resort now ranks high for several search
terms on Google and other search engines.

About Grand VelasIn Nuevo Vallarta, Riviera Nayarit, Mexico, Grand Velas All Suites
& Spa Resort is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World and a recipient
of the AAA Five-Diamond Award. Located just 15 minutes north of Puerto
Vallarta on Banderas Bay, the resort features 267 ocean-view suites, ultra
spacious Spa Suites in the resort's new tower and new three-bedroom and
two-bedroom Imperial Suites. Grand Velas Spa is the crown jewel of the
resort and a member of Leading Spas of the World. The spa features 20 treatment
rooms, over 80 spa treatments, a high-performance gym and exercise room,
spa boutique and a beauty salon.

About
MilestoneMilestone Internet Marketing, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet
marketing solutions for the lodging industry. Milestone’s portfolio
of services included Website Design, Search Engine Optimization, Pay-per-Click
marketing, Email marketing, and several Web 2.0 initiatives like Online
Videos, Blogs, RSS, etc. Milestone currently works with over 600
hotels and drives over $75M in annual revenue for its clients. Milestone
is a preferred vendor for several major lodging industry brands and works
with some of the leading management companies in the US. Milestone
is also well known as a lodging industry educator for its Hotels to HTMLs
internet marketing workshops and book. For more information,
please visit www.milestoneinternet.com
or call (888) 350-8396.